On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

There was one infamous exception: Amazon (used to) mingle their SD
cards with other vendors SD cards in their warehouse. So "sold by
Amazon" SD cards could actually be supplied by a disreputable vendor.
All hell broke loose when counterfeits were found.

They still do. You can't reliably source storage products on Amazon. If it's too cheap, you must assume it's a knockoff.

It still blows my mind that there are (expensive) 1 TB micro SD cards. The equivalent quantity of HD floppies would overfill a half-length (20') shipping container. I can show my working ...

There are 2.5" HD format PATA enclosures for PCIe SSDs. Seems a little like overkill, though

Stewart